Converting/Splitting Code - Open to Closed
Dave J Woolley
david.woolley at bts.co.uk
Wed Feb 14 17:11:13 UTC 2001
> From: Lawrence E. Rosen [SMTP:lrosen at rosenlaw.com]
>
> (a) the invention was known or used by others in this country,
> or patented or described in a printed publication in this or
> a foreign country, before the invention thereof by the applicant,
> or
>
[DJW:] That seems to raise a couple of questions:
- should open source code be published in printed, as well a
machine readable form, to improve the chance that code
produced outside the USA would count for the above;
- does typical program source code "describe" its intellectual
property.
On another tack, does use have to be productive, or could
one cover oneself by running a regression test that excercises
all the code in the US?
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